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People gather at the site of a blast at the Nyanya Motor Park, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the center of Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, April 14, 2014. An explosion blasted through a busy commuter bus station on the outskirts of Abuja before 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) Monday as hundreds of people were traveling to work. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan)

A 73-year-old southwest Missouri man
with a long history of anti-Semitism is suspected of killing two people outside
Overland Park's Jewish Community Center and then a third at a nearby Jewish
assisted living facility. (Kansas
City Star)

A Utah woman admitted to police she
strangled or suffocated at least six of her newborns, stuffed the bodies into
cardboard boxes and hid them in the garage of her home. (USA
Today)

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black
today issued a 45-page ruling requiring Ohio to recognize same-sex marriages
performed legally in other states. (cleveland.com)(Reuters)

An
Army general has upheld Private Chelsea Manning's conviction and 35-year prison
sentence for giving reams of classified U.S. government information to the
anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. (Associated
Press)

Teachers and
staff returned today to the Pittsburgh-area high school where a stabbing last
week left 22 people injured, in preparation for the resumption of classes. (Reuters)

A year after twin pressure cooker bombs
shattered the Boston Marathon and paralyzed the area for days, federal
prosecutors say they have a trove of evidence ready to use against the
surviving suspect, but many questions remain. (Associated
Press)

Florida wildlife officers are keeping
watch on a neighborhood today where a woman was mauled by a black bear in her
driveway Saturday night. (Orlando
Sentinel)

Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps
plans to return to competition at the Arena Grand Prix April 24-26 in Mesa,
Ariz., a decision that could lead to a fifth Olympic appearance. (Chicago
Tribune)

A Utah father
and his two young sons were rescued Saturday after being stuck in a canyon for
three days. (KSL-TV Salt
Lake City)

International news:

A morning rush hour bomb killed at
least 71 people at a Nigerian bus station on the outskirts of the capital
today, raising concerns about the spread of an Islamist insurgency after the
deadliest ever attack on Abuja. (Reuters)

Pro-Russian separatists occupying the regional government
building in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk vowed today to fan out and take
control of strategic infrastructure across the province they have declared an
independent "people's republic." (Voice
of America)

French investigators began taking DNA samples today
from 527 male students and staff at a high school -- including boys as young as
14 -- as they searched for the assailant who raped a teenage girl on the closed
campus. (Time)

The chief prosecutor in the murder
trial of Oscar Pistorius accused him today of "tailoring" his version
of how he killed his girlfriend, as the grueling cross-examination of the track
star went into a second week. (CNN
News)

Syrian troops triumphantly swept
through some of the last remaining opposition strongholds north of Damascus,
including a much coveted ancient Christian hamlet, sending rebel fighters
fleeing to nearby hills amid an ever tightening noose. (Associated
Press)

The Libyan trial of more than 30 top
figures from Moammar Gadhafi's deposed regime opened briefly today, but the
court adjourned proceedings as key defendants, including onetime heir apparent
Seif al-Islam, were absent. (The
Daily Star)

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